English is the study of the English language. The goal is to improve communication skills by practicing listening, speaking, reading, writing, and understanding language rules like pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar.
In the question below choose the word(s) or phrase(s) which best fills(s) the gap(s):
Ebun Ojo _____ international fame as an actress
Options:Choose the best option that best completes the gap(s):
_____ a good boy, he was given a prize.
Options:In the question below choose the option nearest in meaning to the word(s) or phrase underlined:
The beggar's takings snow-belled every hour.
Options:Choose the word or phrase from options A - E which has the opposite in meaning to the underlined word or words in each sentences:
Never in the history of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.
Options:Delinquency describes actions that would not be crimes if performed by adults. If a young person performs one of such actions then he has committed a crime. Delinquency is one of several status offences- offences that can be committed only by people in particular stations of life as determined by age, profession or a person’s role in society. For young people such offences include drinking, driving and smoking under age usually they are offences only to the extent that they help to preserve some of the good things of life for the exclusive enjoyment of the adult world. Delinquency is therefore a weapon forged in adult pride and intolerance. If the world changed overnight and the responsibility would than certainly refer only to many of the adult actions now freely committed by them.
Status offences are those that can be committed by Options:Choose the most appropriate option opposite in meaning to the underlined words.
My friend was reduced to beggary by various ill-advised business deals?
Options:The market was old, timeless Africa; loud, crowed and free. Here a man sat making sandals from old discarded motor-car tyres; there another worked at an old sewing machine, making a nightgown-like affair while the buyer waited; a little further on, an old goldsmith worked at his dying art, but using now copper fillings instead of gold to fashion the lovely trinkets women wear the world over; elsewhere a woman sold country cloth fashioned with such fine art that only Africans think of it as a garment of utility. Trade was slow and loud everywhere. This was as much a social as a shopping centre. For an excuse to spend the day at the market, a woman would walk all way from her village to town with half dozen eggs. She would spread them on a little bit of ground for which she paid rent. Through the day she would squat on the ground and talk to others who came for the same reason. She would refuse to sell her wares till it was time to leave. They were the excuse for business. Whether in earnest or as an excuse, the traders were boisterously free, loud-mouthed and happy. The laughter of the market was a laughter found nowhere else in all the world……………
'An old goldsmith worked on his dying art' means that the Options:This question is from the novel 'The Last Days at Forcados High school'.
‘Jims, we have a perfect meeting with Mr Mallum now’ who made this statement.
Options:Fill in the gap with the most appropriate option from the list provided?
My friend and I have been quarrelling since yesterday and we haven't _____ yet?
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